8 & 10:30 pm: Pop Music

Latin pop is the music industry’s hot ticket these days, but here’s proof that the umbrella term is a slippery one to define: Tom Ze, a founder of Brazil’s tropicalia movement in the ‘60s, comes to the Conga Room as one of pop music’s certified iconoclasts, bearing such sonic weapons as power drill and transistor radio and backed by the Chicago post-punk art-rock band Tortoise.

* Tom Ze, the Conga Room, 5364 Wilshire Blvd., 8 and 10:30 p.m. $TK. (323) 938-1696.

6:30 pm: TV/Museum

Get a warp-speed jump on the series finale of “Deep Space Nine” at the Museum of Television & Radio. The two-hour episode will have its premiere (two weeks before it is televised) in the museum’s video-projection theater, followed by a panel discussion with creator Rick Berman and executive producer Ira Steven Behr. A second screening on Friday will not have a seminar afterward.

* “Deep Space Nine” finale premiere, 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Television & Radio, 465 N. Beverly Drive, Beverly Hills. $10. Sold out but there will be a standby line. Also Friday at 7 p.m., $5. (310) 786-1091.

8 pm: Theater

Barry Gordon heads the cast, along with “Gilligan’s Island’s” Dawn Wells and “Welcome Back Kotter’s” Susan Lanier who alternate in the female lead in “Who Wants Fame?,” Mark Rothman’s comedy about love and TV.

* “Who Wants Fame?” at the Court Theatre, 722 N. La Cienega Blvd., West Hollywood, Thursdays to Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 3 and 7 p.m. Ends June 27. $22 to $27.50. (310) 289-2999.

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FREEBIE:History professor Douglas Flamming discusses “The Harlem of the West: African American Literature and the Culture of Los Angeles” at the Huntington Library, 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino. 7:30 p.m. (626) 405-1200.